It's a good thing ladder anxiety doesn't exist anymore

I'm at gold iv 0 lp with a loss, and though I'd like to be a little higher than that for the placements next season I know it simply isn't worth it to risk the multitude of things that could go wrong. So I just won't play ranked anymore this season. I'm "supposed" to be gold iii, where I was for some time, but since the statistical likelihood of getting an arsehole in every game who's first timing their champ is supposed to be low and evenly distributed among both teams, there's simply no possible way one person can be buried with them for over two weeks solid. Those weeks felt like being crushed by a wet mattress.

The anxiety created by having one game be worth one win or one loss always was terrible. I'm so glad now that one game can be worth seven or eight losses while (almost) never being worth more than one win. So I'll take my middling gold iv, because playing ranked at this point simply isn't worth it. "At least I'm not gold v", right? The payoff isn't worth the risk, the failure isn't worth the effort to recover from. Game design!

Somebody thought this was a good idea, and then a boardroom full of people agreed with him. It really makes you think. And then after three full seasons of screaming about how awful this whole thing is, we finally get a sheepish "we'll tweak it maybe". We don't want it tweaked. We want it taken out back, shot in the back of the head, and then buried deep in an unmarked grave.

Show us our mmr. If that means you're finally going to have to be more transparent about how your "matchmaker" actually "functions", so be it. We all know hiding mmr behind this leagues bullshit is nothing more than a smokescreen. What exactly are you hiding from us? We know you're hiding the information we want, but there must be something else too. Otherwise, why put so much effort into something that is so obviously horrible?